Family name change
If a change of surname is desired outside the provisions of civil law (i.e. not, for example, on marriage or divorce), this must be applied for as a change of name under public law at the competent authority.
Which documents are required?
- Application with
- a statement of the important reasons
- a statement as to whether a change of name has been applied for before, if so, when and with which competent authority
- a declaration that the applicant is aware that the change of name or the rejection or withdrawal of the application is subject to a fee
- Proof that the applicant is either German within the meaning of Art. 116 Para. 1 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany or stateless, a homeless foreigner, a foreign refugee or a person entitled to asylum, e.g.
- Extract from the family register,
- certified copy from the family register,
- certificate of citizenship,
- passport, travel document, identity card or child ID card
- certified copy of the birth entry for the applicant and for all persons to whom the change of surname is to apply; the documents must be recent.
- If the applicant is or was married, the marriage certificate or a certified copy from the family register.
- In the case of a change of name for family law reasons, a certified copy of the family register that was continued as the marriage entry or the family register extract of the family whose name the applicant wishes to adopt must also be submitted.
- for persons who have reached the age of 14:
- Certificate of good conduct (document type O)
The documents should be submitted in the original. All application documents remain with the responsible office. The original documents submitted will be returned once the copies have been certified.
In individual cases, further documents and evidence may be required to process the application. Information on this can be obtained from the responsible office.
Requirements
- German within the meaning of Article 116 (1) of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (GG), stateless persons, homeless foreigners, foreign refugees or persons entitled to asylum
- Existence of an important reason, which must be explained in detail in the application
For the following reasons for change, further requirements apply, which are included in the respective benefit:
- Declaration by displaced persons, ethnic German repatriates, their spouses and descendants
- Declaration on the name of spouses
- Declaration on the name of life partners
- Subsequent declaration of a joint family name
- Reassumption of the birth name
- Change of a child's surname
What are the fees?
The amount of the fee depends on the administrative effort and the significance, economic value or other benefit of the official act for the applicant.
Process flow
The legal representative (father, mother, guardian, custodian) submits the application for a person with limited legal capacity. A guardian or custodian requires the approval of the guardianship court. The approval of the guardianship court and proof of the result of the guardianship court hearing of the applicant must be attached to the application.
Further questions regarding the application will be answered by the responsible office.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Deadlines may have to be observed. Please contact the responsible office.
Author
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Who should I contact?
Responsibility lies with the municipality, the joint municipality and the town in which the applicant is resident.
Responsible authorities
Einheitsgemeinde Haselünne, Stadt
Timetable
Timetable
Contact
- Haselünne:
- AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Counseling
- Acknowledgement of paternity
- Animal enclosure display
- Application for approval as a transport company in accordance with the EU Animal Welfare Transport Regulation
- Application for issuance of a German death certificate in case of death abroad
- Application for the issuance of a certificate of no impediment to marriage for German nationals, stateless persons, homeless foreigners or foreign refugees within the meaning of the Convention on the Status of Refugees with Habitual Residence in Germany
- Apply for a death certificate
- Apply for a permit to supply / dispense certain hazardous substances and mixtures in accordance with ChemVerbotsV
- Apply for a resident parking permit
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Apply for blind person's allowance
- Apply for certificate of seclusion according to the Condominium Act
- Apply for infection protection instruction including certificate
- Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities, minors with physical or mental disabilities or sensory impairments
- Assistance for subsistence: granting
- Assistance in other situations Authorisation
- Authorisation for exemptions from the Highway Code: granting
- Authorisation for the non-commercial handling and acquisition of explosive substances Granting
- Avian influenza
- Basic provision in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity (social assistance)
- Birth certificate issuance
- Birth registers
- Broadband coverage
- Building file archive
- Building permit issuance in the simplified building permit procedure
- Bulky waste disposal by collection
- Bulky waste disposal by personal delivery
- Calculating and setting the wastewater levy
- Car towed - municipal information
- Carcasses and animal by-products: disposal
- Change to the church tax deduction when joining the church
- Change to the church tax deduction when leaving the church
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Church admission: Declaration
- Citizens' consultation hours
- Citizenship card: Issuance
- Commercial properties
- Community licence for the international and national carriage of passengers by coach and bus: issue
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Damage to roads and bridges: Notification
- Data protection in municipalities
- Disaster prevention
- Documents and copies: Certification
- Dog ownership deregistration
- Driver's license issue new due to name change
- Driving licence: Extension - driving licence of categories C and D
- Driving licence: issued - on trial
- Early Aid Offer
- Earth excavation display for wells
- Electronic proof of identity blocking
- Electronic residence permit issuance
- Enrolment of a child in primary school
- Establishment of a civil partnership Notarisation
- Event: Advertisement
- Events in public transport areas: Permission
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exemption for the use of floodplains: granted
- Exemption from the driving ban on Sundays and public holidays: Authorisation
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Extending the registration of prostitution activity
- Family book: Exhibition
- Family name change
- Firearms license
- Foster children
- GIS - Geographical Information System
- Game Warden Confirmation
- Garden waste disposal
- Guardianship Institution
- Guardianship law
- Handling of water-polluting substances Display
- Help for pregnant women
- House number: Fixing
- Household waste disposal
- Hunting lease: Advertisement
- Hunting license: exhibition
- Information blocking device
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with custodial partner
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with divorced or widowed partner
- Interference with nature and landscape: authorisation
- Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
- Keeping of farm animals - display
- Land use plan
- Landscape and green space plans
- Lost property
- Manufacture, authorization, supply and import of veterinary medicinal products: information provided
- Markets and festivals
- Marriage consummation only for German citizens
- Marriage consummation with foreign partner
- Medical Service / Youth Medical Service
- Municipal sports facilities
- Naturalization: Approval - for foreigners entitled to naturalization
- Obligations of waste disposal and recovery companies
- Operation Prostitution Business Permit
- Operation of a shooting range in enclosed spaces: display
- Organ donation
- Organization or execution of prostitution events Permit
- Parenting, marriage, family and life counselling
- Parking barrier for a move: Facility
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance new due to change of name upon marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Passport issuance new due to change of other data
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport status query
- Pay trade tax
- Permit-free construction measures Notification
- Permits and exceptions to excessive road use: granting
- Playgrounds: Maintenance
- Possession of poliovirus display
- Protection of children and adolescents
- Register at the secondary school
- Register burial
- Register marriage
- Registration for the transportation of animal by-products
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Road signs and traffic facilities: modification
- Self-help groups
- Studying in Lower Saxony
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- Undeclared work notification
- Planning approval
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Preservation of Historical Monuments
- Process-free construction measures
- Providing a prostitution vehicle permit
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Psychiatric institution (closed) - Accommodation
- Report significant changes for housing benefit such as number of household members, rent, charges or income
- Reporting suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing
- Representation permit for a prostitution business Permit
- Residence Registration as main residence
- School enrolment examination
- School excursions, school trips and comparable trips from day-care centres: reimbursement of costs
- School travel costs
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips by day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to the Federal Child Benefit Act
- Second home tax exemption
- Senior citizens' and nursing homes in Lower Saxony
- Shelter (children, adolescents and young adults)
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Special obligation to register in accommodation establishments Registration
- Store opening hours
- Tax Life Certificate: Issuance
- Temporary authorisation for road passenger transport: grant
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Vacation
- Vaccination: Advice
- Vegetable waste disposal by incineration
- Voluntary Social Year
- Voluntary work Appointment as a youth alderman
- Advertisement of non-profit and commercial waste collections
- Animal Event Permit
- Application for exemption from presentation of the certificate of marriageability for foreign nationals.
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Applying for an increase in housing benefit
- Avoidance, recycling and disposal of waste Consulting
- Building encumbrances: Entry - in the register of building encumbrances
- Building permit issuance
- Care and care of children and adolescents in emergency situations
- Change of use of buildings Approval
- Children's Passport Issue
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Compensatory and substitute measures for nature conservation
- Confirmation of development
- Determination of the route of dangerous goods transports: Issue - Determination of individual routes
- Dog ownership registration
- Domestic slaughter
- Early intervention for the hearing impaired
- Exemption for compulsory use of seat belts and helmets: Granting
- Express passport issue
- Family holidays: Funding
- Granting access to building permits for neighbours
- Have address and personal data changed
- Home care
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Local law
- Memorials
- Out-of-court dispute resolution
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- Passport issuance new due to expiry of validity
- Passport report for theft
- Pension scheme
- Permit for the extraction of mineral resources: Granting
- Protection of animals
- Register of contaminated sites: Information
- Signatures: Certification
- Use of sound amplification systems: granting - exemption
- Violence against women
- Winter service
- Ambulance transport
- Applying for a permit under immission control law for the construction and operation of systems
- Assistance for the elderly
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Cancel display
- Carrying out collections Provision of information
- Childcare services for seniors
- Chimney sweep
- Construction site: Issuance of construction site orders under traffic law
- Construction supervision
- Conveyance
- Cycling
- Declaration of the right to a name
- Decoration of Honour of the Land
- Distinction between crafts and non-crafts - consulting
- Driving licence: transfer - foreign driving licence
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Environmental information on contaminated sites and areas suspected of being contaminated sites: Information
- Exemption for the use of tools between 20:00 and 7:00: issuance
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Food inspection
- Helping the homeless
- Housekeeping help
- Housing benefit cancellation/invalidity
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Licence for the (cross-border) carriage of goods by road for commercial purposes / Community licence
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Obtain a certificate for carrying narcotics when traveling abroad
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Professional drivers - confirm basic qualification
- Register your child at a secondary school
- Requesting an exception from the prohibition of work on Sundays and public holidays
- School performance: assessment
- Show installation of a prostitution vehicle
- Street cleaning
- Towing permit: issue
- Waste disposal
- Waste tyre storage facilities of less than 100 tonnes: approval
- Water law permit for structural installations on water bodies: Granting
- Apply for a subsidy for expenses on a monument
- Assessment of second home tax
- Bathing water quality monitoring
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Commuter Portal
- Dementia - Information options
- Direct discharge of rainwater: permission
- Disturbance of street lighting: message
- Driving licence: Issuance - International driving licence
- Driving license: Issue - Passenger transport
- Environmental impact assessment
- Exemption from the observance of the night's rest for events: granting
- Flood protection
- Gun ownership card: issuance - for sport shooters
- Health advice for prostitutes
- Hunting permit: notification
- Immission control: Inspection - due to impairment
- Medical officer
- Notification period of an auction: shortening
- Nursing homes, forms of assisted living, outpatient assisted living communities: Obligation to notify - Operation
- Outdoor Advertising: Approval
- Parking permit
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport notification due to loss
- Petrol stations Advertisement Commissioning: Limitation of the release of fuel vapours
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Resident certificate issuance
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB II
- Special reporting obligation in hospitals, homes and similar institutions Registration
- Tuberculosis counselling
- Urban land-use planning
- Veterinary affairs
- Volunteering
- War Victims' Welfare Grant for injured persons
- property tax assessment received
- Addiction counselling
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a tree felling permit for municipally protected trees
- Apply for certificates of origin and other certifications required for foreign trade from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Assistance to overcome particular social difficulties
- Biowaste disposal
- Carrying out school dental check-ups
- Certificate of competence for keeping chickens for fattening
- Children's passport report for theft
- Citizens' advice
- Commercial Waste Disposal
- Commercial cattle trade: advertisement
- Commercial road haulage - Apply for a permit
- Confirmation of landlord
- Construction of a small sewage treatment plant: Advertisement
- Day care
- Dog tax assessment
- Driving license: Extension
- Extending the validity of a resident parking permit
- Identity card status query
- Improvement of regional economic structure Support
- Legal biotope protection
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: issue
- Nature conservation area: Determination
- Organization or implementation of prostitution events Advertisement
- Permission to drive in protected landscape areas: Issuance
- Permission to operate a prostitution establishment
- Permit and exemption for large-capacity and heavy goods traffic: issue
- Preliminary building inquiry and preliminary building permit
- Private trips abroad with pets (dogs, cats, ferrets)
- Recovery of maintenance
- Register prostitution activity for the first time
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB XII
- Setting a waste fee
- Voluntary work Appointment as alderman
- Waste paper: disposal
- Water Supervision
- Water permit for the abstraction of groundwater: Granting
- Welfare
- Wohnberechtigungsschein: Issuance
- Zoo: Approval